The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-09-25

present day read Balyao and remember MIN
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ds Manirgnsuss princess,c dG Oa I'd a.
assoeiations and The hlstoire des Trsizs.
ra Ss Snn that ths e
Frenchmsp who Is at ali cultivated In the
flnesse q his language, and IN the, perfection
The neooasms and as % 81 BssaS
has and never win ,exercise any influence
scene where his dramas take place be gives
s snSS az fss Gsas
we're invented for him by his friend, the Comto
TeTdins r DC whose son e now dTs
paper, tIniransioeanl When ,Balzao describes
room he does not forget singe nall In the
tiresome and painful to read, and It mover. has
the grand character Of tlctruth which lives
only Ry sacrcs The mnrys IN Basas Il his
grander thar. reality. He has magnifed his
modes sposed foT his sbs
This faculty OF magnifying Is what we mean By
tho faculty Of introducing the ideal into art.
point pol II Observed facts. And the poet q p5e:
cisely tho generalizer, the magnifer and the
q w HUGE Wsen out
mon Parisian street Arab he creates the type
O. hs sSh r The Pss 81 sa5s In
say that Islzae Put ysEy little strict observe
ioul's most interesting history Of the Comsdie
Humaine, We know who were the originals OF
Bixiou; Bianchon. Rastigpae, Claude vtgnon:
only took the mere surface OF his contempt
rarles. and borrowed from them only anec-
sn he eesS ana as cr
less TO have observed the society Of his epoeh,
tho succeeding epoch; and 80 such and such .
E Ess a,uss f. 1899 than 1t was in
We may observe a. similar phenomenon IN
types Of the younger Dumas, which, although
have become true in the course q few years;
The tive reasons which explain this faculty Of
zacs mSpcty ana Variety Of
toire' above referred TO, and the philos1ph-
him an Edgar Poe had Il not been d omi.
n msde him as haRder 81 geners IDEAS
otG pIi s Lambert" he has written monosraphy
Remark again that the quantity Of books pro-
duced By Balzac during tho short time that he
lived, the incessant and prodigious labor he
left % sets s t. SsE
to reconstitnte. an animal from q single bone.
and generalizing faculties. Reconstructed. an
s sSSsRts
only beginning to act when he was Lying; and
so 1s Ihe Pppe
not really and completely exist until Napoleon
the B5s was h
erature, in art. and in galanteri: men and and
which he. had created ten. fifteen. and twenty
years before: Tho Duo de- Morny was an In;
MTn1 Syrs q hs5o Of little and ground
Sss and HSp aeSs 1 nH E
marching with his carpet bug to conquer Paris
is the image that haunts the minds Of thou
sands Of proyincIsl youths who come to Paris
cIety In modern Paris is ,the spirit q advsn::
turs not Of adyentqre II distant countries: 6Ht
movement has. greatly aided the development
the barriers formerly existine bstwesn differ.
with it: he has, moulded the iacile minds Of
young men. and of women too. and filled them
shd dsa
with wonder the Immense social influence Of
we bs soa n th
sgampish personnel q the empire. And 10 now
a IL Sho n upon ths
political booty Of the present republic.
adss heroes nFe social r.
tss aS n Te ao thin Ct al
Which the PRACTICAL Balssciens Of the present
day have realized. Furthermore, Monte Cristo
with heroic candor employs his millions to
c c Of RsstiSnac and R9bempre spend
Mops to buy
soIs S 81 smartnsss astateness and cool un
fore his teaching has peryerted many. But.
Eepertory Of characters H.,S,,H includes many
Stands above all the French writer's o
the century In that which seems to DO the
great and typical literary formula Of our times.
II mean the novel, That he has never been
81 sssss %sds aaa adsrs s &
schools only produce imitators. For that mat
ter. schools in literature are only pretext for
maSh IN the form " ths
nnd 81
and vain pretension Of debating to the future
art. re was content to act eiiicaci9usly on his
wonderful and rare initial force that its influ-
ence has continued with scarcely perceptible
diminution for more than half q century.
When ono begins to talk about Bslzac the
difficulty 10 to cease. so curious and romantic
IS everything connected with his whole exist
sonier painted his portrait and that nobody
will ever see that portrait again Why3
liked Balzac very much, I illustrated some Of
gan tho portrait: Balzac came regularly to tho
studio to sit; then he suddenly ceased to come.
fine dsHy oSUe.n II fresh pig;
v which ar. belC s.d h..
Man Choosing his Best Sword but Ponssrd,
who was good grammarian and whom Angler
consulted about his verses, said to me laugh
ingly: Your title is Q bad ono. 1t Is evident
that il he chooses he picks out his best sword"
This minor fact Of s5ti Sd history is little
same frame, one visible and the other hidden,
one young man ma. choosing q sword word, and the
OF the Comedi6 Humane. THEoDORE CHILD.